Payday 3 Developer Is Working On A Multiplayer Dungeons & Dragons Game

thegamer.com:

Payday 3 developer Starbreeze Entertainment has announced that it's teaming up with Wizards of the Coast to create a cooperative multiplayer game based on the popular Dungeons & Dragons franchise. Starbreeze hasn't announced a name for the title just yet, but they have revealed that it's being developed under the name Project Baxter and will be released at some point in 2026.

In a post on the official Starbreeze Entertainment website (thanks Eurogamer), it's further explained that Project Baxter will contain "the signature Starbreeze game cornerstones of cooperative multiplayer" and that it will be a service game expected to last for multiple years. Starbreeze CEO Tobias Sjögren goes on to thanks Wizards of the Coast for being a great partner and explains how excited he is to work with the D&D license.

When looking at prospective IPs for our future projects, Dungeons and Dragons was always at the top of our list and I'm incredibly happy to announce this license.

Dungeons & Dragons is obviously a very multiplayer-focused experience (you could play it on your own, but that would be very sad), but it will be interesting to see how Starbreeze uses the license to create a Payday 3-esque experience. For some reason, I doubt you'll have a party of adventurers don masks and go stick up the village bank, but the idea of executing a heist with a group of Dungeons & Dragons characters does sound pretty cool.

Whatever Project Baxter ends up being, it's clear that Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro are now very keen to dish out the Dungeons & Dragons license to game developers as much as they can. Given that Baldur's Gate 3 managed to cause a 40 percent rise in digital revenue for a company as massive as Hasbro, it makes sense that it